# Could the Virgin Mary have said no? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 27, 2026, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-virgin-mary-have-said-no/1028820 "2026-03-27T20:16:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 43
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-virgin-mary-have-said-no/1028820/43 "2026-03-30T20:33:30Z")
We recently had a thread about that: > [@Do you take one box or two boxes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-one-box-or-two-boxes/1028360): > > Inspired by a Veritasium video. You walk into a room. Inside are two boxes. One is open, and in it is $1,000. The other box is closed and opaque. A supercomputer is in the room. It is extremely good at predicting people. In fact it correctly predicted what 1,000 people would do when presented with the scenario you are about to face. It tells you that before you walked into the room and were presented with this scenario, it predicted whether you would choose to take one box or two boxes. If … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-virgin-mary-have-said-no/1028820)._